Wire-cutter



(No Model.)

H. B. MORRISON.

WIRE CUTTER. No. 359,684 v Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

Svwemtoz UNITED. STATES PATENT @rrien.

HORATIO B. MORRISON, OF BRITT, IO'WA.

WlRE-CUTTER.

ESPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,68 dated March 22, 1887,

Application filed December 31, 1885.

Serial No. 187,216. No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

a citizen ofthe United Statcs,residing at Britt, in the county of Hancock and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vire-Gutters, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in wire-cutters; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same with the arms distended in position for sharpening the euttingjaws. Fig. 3 is a front end elevation.

A 13 represent the arms of the cutter, which are fulcru med together, as at G, and provided at their front ends with the cutting-jaws a Z). The said cutting-jaws have their outer portions straight and theirinner portions curved inwardly, as at c. Theheads D of the arms are broadened and flattened, as shown, thus providing broad bearing-faces for the opposing heads and preventing side strain on the fulcrum or rivet 0 when the jaws are closed on a wire. This construction prevents the heads from working loose on the fulcrum and causes their opposing faces to always hear firmly against each other, thus insuring a straight cutacross thewirc,leavingno burr thereon to be afterward smoothed with a file.

This cutter is particularly adapted for cutting the wired edges of tinware. The curved portions of the jaws adjacent to the fulcrum receive the rounded wired edge of the tinware, and when the jaws are closed thereon cut through the wire and the tin, and the straight outer portions of the cutting-jaws cut a slit for a slight distance beyond the wired edge, as will be very readilyunderstood.

. The tool is adapted, also, for a great variety of other uses, such as for cutting the wires of 5 broadened opposing faces of the heads, and by M moving the outer ends of the arms toward and from each other a few times, to cause the cutting-jaws to rub against the broadened faces of the heads, the said jaws are readily sharpened. sharpening, saves a great deal of time and laher in keeping the jaws in cutting condition.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim- The wirecutter comprising the armsA and 13, having the broad flattened heads D, fulcrumed together and bearing closely against each other, the said heads having the forwardly-projecting cutting-jaws a and 1;, provided with the beveled cutting-edges, straight at the outer ends of the jaws for cutting the tin, and curved or indeutedat c at the inner ends thereof to receive and cut the wire, whereby the tin and wire can be cut at the same operation, for the purposes set forth,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HORATIO B. MORRISON.

Witnesses:

WM. E. BRADFORD, G. R. GRAVES.

The instrument being thus madeself- V 

